The Kashmiri Pandit organisation Panun Kashmir expelled its long-standing chairman Dr. Ajay Chrungoo on March 14, 2026, citing allegations of foreign links, anti-organisational conduct, and ideological deviation, according to a statement by Convenor Agnishekhar reported by the Press Trust of India, Daily Excelsior, and Indian Express.
The expulsion announcement identified Chrungoo’s alleged interactions with US-based Pakistani ISI agent Ghulam Nabi Fai as the primary basis for his removal, according to PTI and Indian Express. The organisation further alleged that Chrungoo made statements critical of the Ram Mandir that were characterised as hostile to national interests, engaged in what it described as character assassination of senior activists through third parties, and attempted to dissolve the organisation without a mandate, according to the same sources. Questions were also raised about the purpose and sponsorship of his foreign visits, for which he reportedly refused to provide clarification to the organisation’s leadership.
Tito Ganju has been nominated as the new chairman of Panun Kashmir and is tasked with overseeing a restructuring of the organisation and drafting a revised constitutional framework, according to PTI. This framework is to be formally adopted at an activists’ workshop scheduled in Jammu on May 24, 2026.
Chrungoo’s response to the allegations and his expulsion had not been reported in the sources available for this article. Indian Express noted that Chrungoo was a founding figure of Panun Kashmir, which was established to advocate for the rights and return of Kashmiri Pandit displaced persons. The internal rupture reflects organisational pressures that the Indian Express report described as rooted in a sustained dispute over the direction and leadership of the community’s principal advocacy body.
